2017) 'The securitization of international peacebuilding.', in Securitization in statebuilding and intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos. Politiken der Sicherheit. (1). Further information on publisher's website: http://www.nomos-shop.de/Bonacker-Distler-Ketzmerick-Securitization-Statebuilding-Intervention/productview.aspx?product=30173Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information:
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Abstract:After the often-proclaimed 'death' of the ontologies of liberal peacebuilding, its associated ideas seem to increasingly discursively translate into a security framework. This can be read as an attempt of the main agents of international peacebuilding to ensure the survival of their approaches, institutions and infrastructures through a new framing of the concept. At the same time, this new framing of peace-related ideas has come to redefine 'peace' as 'security', however not necessarily for the intervened upon, but instead for its own agents and agenda-setters. Against this background, this chapter investigates the agents of securitised peacebuilding and argues that the question 'Whose peace? ' (Pugh et al, 2008) can increasingly be read as 'Whose security?'. In that sense, the chapter suggests that peace has come to represent a concern regarding the security of the dominant actors in the international system. The chapter thus asks: a) who has the power to frame peace as security, b) how are these agents reframing peacebuilding and c) what does the merging of the peacebuilding and securitisation agenda mean for the ownership of peace, both locally and globally.
